Chiara Mastroianni: I only saw my parents together on screen
Her father was Italy's most famous film star and her mother the grande dame of French cinema. She talks to Jason Solomons about them
Timothy Spall: ‘Fate has already tried to kill me’
After raising a family and battling leukaemia, Timothy Spall threw caution to the wind and sailed a barge around the coast of Britain. Nick Duerden speaks to the actor and his wife about their late-blossoming spirit of adventure
My dad, the silent film star
When Jonathan Croall researched the life of his matinee idol father, he was shocked by what he found – and at last the reason for his emotional reserve
Vinnie Jones: My family life
The actor and former footballer talks about his family
Paul Bettany: My family values
The Margin Call actor talks about his family
The famous Fiennes
Film-maker Martha Fiennes's new work, Nativity, has a soundtrack composed by her brother Magnus. They talk about their bohemian upbringing as two of six siblings and the unusual creative bond they share
Henry Winkler: My family values
The actor and director talks about his family
‘Mummy’s still looking after me’
When Gillian Lynne was 13, her mother was killed in a car crash. Remarkably, she turned a terrible loss into the catalyst for a hugely successful career in theatre, film and TV– and it was all inspired by her mother
Anoushka Shankar: My deep connection with my father
Nick Duerden: Anoushka Shankar is from a world-famous musical family. But she didn't truly get to know her father – or meet her half-sister – until well into her childhood
Barry Norman: My family values
The broadcaster talks about his family
Hugh Grant’s joy at fatherhood makes him a thoroughly modern man
Hugo Schwyzer: The unabashed delight with which Grant announced he has a newborn says much about changing attitudes to fatherhood
Bryce Dallas Howard: My family values
Actor, and daughter of film director Ron Howard, talks about her family
Lucy Mangan’s pick of the week: The story, the stat, the quote, the tweet
Lucy Mangan on the people and stories in the media spotlight over the past seven days
I don’t know how he does it, either
Vanessa Thorpe: The truth is that in most families today the domestically challenged, Homer Simpson-style father is a thing of the past
A tale of two childhoods
Film director Wayne Thallon grew up in Edinburgh, between two very different homes. His mother was the wife of an Italian diplomat, his father a working-class wheeler-dealer. Sharon Walker meets him